Getting desktop colour depth

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Boiled Sweets (Posted 2004) [#1]

There has been many posts about how to get the desktop resolution but how do you get the desktop colour depth?

Uber Lieutenant (Posted 2004) [#2]

I don't know the answer to this, myself. So I did a bit of searching for you and found a DLL userlib that extends Blitz's OS functions (which I would assume includes current resolution and color depth). I hope this is what I think it is. http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/showcase/showcase_showentry.pl?id=Rob__Hutchinson01222002120752&comments=no

BlitzSupport (Posted 2004) [#3]

I won't swear to this off-hand without testing, but I seem to recall that calling GraphicsDepth () before setting a graphics mode will do it. Perhaps it was a particular incarnation of Blitz that did it...?

Boiled Sweets (Posted 2004) [#4]

Here I go again answering my own questions. Another way... bank = CreateBank(4) API_CopyMemoryPntrAddr bank,FrontBuffer() + 100,4 depth = PeekInt(bank,0) FreeBank bank and userlib adjustment: lib "kernel32.dll" API_CopyMemoryPntrAddr%(Destination*,Source%,Length%) : "RtlMoveMemory"

poopla (Posted 2006) [#5]

Just looked through blitz'sys, that's good stuff.